Body Lengths
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As I get older, I train harder and harder, because I have this insatiable hunger to win. I never stop to think whether I love (or hate) swimming. That never comes into it. All I know is that I need to win, and swimming fulfils that need. I
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“Scared is how you see the spear coming for your eye. Scared is how you choose where and when to strike.”
― Ithaca
― Ithaca
“Monsters had fangs, but that was why lionesses were given claws.”
― Lore
― Lore
“all I knew and all I wanted to know, the only thing that made me feel like all my limbs were where they should be, and my heart was beating at the correct pace. “It feels like freedom,” I managed, stumbling over my words. Behind me, someone snickered, and I felt my face redden. But the princess just nodded. “I thought it might,” she said.”
― Phaedra
― Phaedra
“This logic applies only to men, obviously. A woman descended from a god still has to be either a good woman or a witch. What would it take to be called a heroine?”
― Phaedra
― Phaedra
“Me? I just wonder how I’ll move my one hundred and twenty-six pounds of cells through the warped space and time ahead.”
― Cracked Pots
― Cracked Pots
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